Ronda Rousey offers a glimpse inside the 'hellish' ramshackle house she once called home in documentary detailing her squalid living conditions before she rose to fame

Ronda Rousey may be a budding actress, a bestselling author, and one of the UFC's wealthiest stars, but before her quick rise to fame, the mixed martial arts fighter was living in squalor in a dilapidated home in Venice Beach.

The 29-year-old reveals what her life was really like before she hit it big in a clip from filmmakers Gary Stretch and Peter Antico's upcoming documentary, In Her Father's Eyes, which chronicles the past seven years of the former UFC bantamweight champion's life. 

In a preview clip of the documentary, which was released on Wednesday by USA Today, Ronda can be seen giving the cameras a tour of her broken-down home in 2011, as she admits that she and her roommates had let the property sink into a state of filthy disarray.

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'Hellish' house: Ronda Rousey can be seen giving a tour of her disastrous kitchen in 2011 in a clip from the upcoming documentary, In Her Father's Eyes, which chronicles the past seven years of her life 

Modest means: Before she was a star, the 29-year-old was living in a dilapidated home in Venice Beach 

'I don't know how we haven't come up with a new strain of cholera,' she explains, while gesturing to the horrific mess that littered her kitchen.

Ronda's cabinets are left open, her counters are covered with everything from a bag of tortilla chips to a water filter pitcher that never made its way back into the refrigerator.

'I wrote a note to describe the personality of our kitchen,' she explains as she closes an open door to reveal the message, which is taped next to her calendar. 

'I don't know what our garbage disposal thinks of us,' it reads. 

Ronda, who had little money and even briefly slept in her car at that time in her life, says that part of her apathy towards her surroundings is due to the fact that she and her roommates were told that the house was going to be torn down as soon as they moved out. 

'As soon as we found out, we were just like, "Well, who gives a s**t?" They're tearing down the house, so we kind of just want it all to go to hell,' she admits, before adding: 'But it was already kind of hellish when I moved in. 

Keeping it real: In the clip, Ronda jokes that she is surprised that she and her roommates haven't come up with a 'new strain of cholera' in their kitchen

Shocking turn of events: Ronda, who lost her UFC bantamweight champion title to Holly Holm in November, can be seen being punched by her rival during her brutal defeat 

'You know, I didn't make it like this.' 

Ronda appears to be aware that her living situation is a bit shocking, explaining that Gary and Peter even called her ahead of the interview because they thought they were at the wrong address, assuming that there was no way that she could be living in such a ramshackle property.

'We met Ronda in the years before anyone knew her name,' Peter told USA Today. 'We really tried to capture who Ronda is and we had the advantage of spending a lot of time with her. 

'She is a sweet-natured and genuine person and we saw her evolve into this famous athlete before our eyes.

'But it is fair to say that her life was very different only a few years ago. When we turned up at the place in Venice it was so overgrown it was hard to find it.' 

'We were like, where are we?' Gary adds. 'It didn’t look like the kind of place where someone was actually living. It was like a jungle outside and looked like it was about to fall down.' 

True story: Ronda, who appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last month, quickly rose to fame. The documentary by Gary Stretch and Peter Antico chronicles what her life was like before she made it big

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Dark time: Ronda recently admitted that she contemplated suicide after her shocking defeat to Holly in 2015

Meanwhile, Ronda's mother, AnnMaria DeMars, who has seen an early version of the documentary, admits that she thinks her daughter was 'happier' back then because although she 'didn't have a lot', she at least 'knew who her real friends were'.  

Ronda recently suffered a devastating loss to her competitor Holly Holm, who knocked her out and left her hospitalized in November.

While Holly will be defending her title on Saturday during her match with Miesha Tate, Ronda is tentatively scheduled to return to the octagon in November for a potential rematch with her rival.

During her appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in February, Ronda admitted that she was so depressed after losing her title to Holly that she considered taking her own life. 

In an interview with TMZ, Ronda insisted that people shouldn't be embarrassed to talk openly about suicide, because reducing the stigma could save lives. 

'It's not about damning people. I feel like there's been an overly negative light on [having suicidal thoughts], and it's something that real people are going through, not, like, a weakness that we should condemn,' she said. 

Past struggle: Ronda's father, Ron, killed himself when she was eight, which was a surprise to her entire family, who didn't see it coming

Happier times: Ronda, who is pictured with her family as a child, has spoken candidly of her suicidal thoughts because she believes it will reduce the stigma surrounding it and potentially save lives 

Ronda's father, Ron, killed himself when she was eight - a surprise to the family, who didn't see it coming. He'd grown depressed after breaking his back during a sledding incident, after which he failed to heal properly due to a blood disorder.

While Ronda and her sisters watched Nickelodeon inside the house, he asphyxiated himself in the garage. Ronda wrote about the incident in her book, My Fight / Your Fight, noting: 'None of us were the same after that.' 

Ronda also spoke to TMZ about watching other people deal with the effects of depression, proving that mental health issues can touch anyone.

'There's a history of suicide in my family. My dad and his father both took their lives, and I think... suicide's the number one killer of young teens as well,' she said.

Ronda and her dad had been close, with Ron encouraging her to overcome her developmental delays, which were a result of a loss of oxygen from being born with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. He also took her to buy her first doll, a Hulk Hogan Wrestling Buddy, and the two would watch 'Wild Discovery' on the Discovery Channel together before he died.

'It's really heavily affected our family, and anything that I could do to make sure it affects as few people as possible, I'd be happy to do that,' she went on in her TMZ interview. 'I don't see why [talking about it is] looked at as a bad thing. Like, I only saw how big of a deal it was afterward. I was just being honest.' 

Natural beauty: Ronda scored her own cover of the 2016 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue after posing for a sexy editorial for the magazine wearing nothing but a painted-on bathing suit 

Other talents: The former UFC champion is also a budding actress and a bestselling author. Her memoir, My Fight / Your Fight, debuted in May 2015 

To help destigmatize talking about suicidal thoughts, she added, she does a lot of work with Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, a free mental health clinic in LA. In 2014, the clinic awarded her an Erasing the Stigma Leadership Award.

Didi Hirsch also works with girls struggling with eating disorders, another issue Ronda struggled with in the past.

'The last event I went to for them, their whole thing was erasing the stigma, taking the stigma away from suicide, and making it actually acceptable for people to talk about it and look for help and to not feel ashamed of themselves for it,' she said.

Ronda also briefly touched on a possible rematch against Holly, saying that she hopes the current champion wins her fight against Miesha Tate at UFC 196 in March - because Ronda wants the chance to win the belt back from her personally.

'I don't want anyone to take the honor of beating her besides myself,' she said, with her usual tough-girl swagger.  

The former champion, who is often pictured in California with her boyfriend and fellow UFC star Travis Browne, is back to training and was seen sparring with her trainer Edmond Tarverdyan at the Glendale Fighting Club in California in February.

And while she is getting back in fighting shape, Ronda continues to achieve even greater fame as it was revealed last month that she has earned her own Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover after posing in a painted-on bathing suit for her sexy editorial.